середа, 25 листопада 2015 р.

Here’s a few interesting facts about how we created the Cradle outro video.
Attention: spoilers present!

-The work on video was done in
several stages with huge pauses in between. The Leave the Cradle lyrics was
written back in 2011, the music – in 2012, the scene with futuristic Geneva was
captured in 2013, people’s silhouettes – in 2015. The editing was completed the
day before the game’s release.

-The scene with the city was
filmed in Kiev, in the yard of a building on Vladimirskaya street. The place was a good fit for our task: it had a background of mirrored
windows, the sky which we could densely populate with skyscrapers, and not many
people around. Nearby there is a restaurant where we borrowed some props (furniture,
flower pots, crockery).

For the episodes with the city
views we made a big detailed artwork and then animated some of its fragments. Downloadthe artwork.

-Mobile phone used by Mark to
sms is an iPhone 4. We changed the way it looks by applying a paper frame onto
its body. The design of the frame is coherent with that of the tablet on
Enebish’es bedside table.

The sms messenger displayed on the phone screen was made a separate app based
on Unity engine. The program reacted to touches on drawn buttons, displayed the
text typed in and pretended to be sending the sms to addressee.

Thirty years ago in the mid-2040s the sweeping development of neuroscience stirred up the common anticipation of victory over aging and death. In 2047 the scientists of the Neurocopying Institute in Cologne run the first experiments on transferring human consciousness onto an artificial carrier. In the course of experiments a weird previously unregistered phenomenon was discovered - the copies of neurotic system of the test subjects awoken in the computational device began to self-destroy by immersing in a state of deep irrational fear.

The discovery of the mysterious phenomenon induced a string of events to have completely changed the society. Dozens of years later the question of the ‘Panic Attack’ nature still remains open. We do not know how far the researchers’ thought has led them in search of the answer, but we believe it hardly ever visited this Mongolian steppe.

Year 2076, Mongolia. You wake up in a yurt amidst the boundless steppes. You neither remember your name, nor are aware of how long you had slept. Who are you? Who is this mechanical girl sitting on the table and what is the number she has on her chest? Nearby there towers the dome of a neglected entertainment park. How did it appear in these desert lands? What has happened here? Look around and try to sort things out. You are to begin on a peculiar and a touching story.

неділя, 19 липня 2015 р.

We already
mentioned our intention to release Cradle soundtrack as a part of Deluxe
edition. Now we’d like to share some details with you.

Total
length of the soundtrack will exceed 90 minutes. Theme-wise it can be split
into three albums:

Atmospheres, Stories and Pavilions. The albums
are written by various authors and reflect different aspects of the game: the
Atmospheres includes ambient tracks, the Stories – compositions to accompany
the storyline twists of the game, the Pavillions include electronic tracks from
the mini-games. We have prepared a sampler featuring bits of several
compositions for you today. Enjoy!